Historic photos of Coalburn and the surrounding villages
Last passenger train at Coalburn Station (a pair of diesel multiple units) on 2nd October 1965
These photographs are from the archived collection in the Heritage Centre. The majority of these were collected by the late Jim Hamilton and include his own photographs taken in the 1980s and 1990s.
Coalburn
- Railway Hotel and Coalburn Inn
- Roads
- Coalburn Parish Church
- Coalburn Station
- Station Staff
- Opencast Mining in Coalburn
- Washing Plant and Distribution
- Aerial Photos over the Dalquhandy Opencast Mine in 1996
- The Auchlochan Colleries in Coalburn
- Auchenbegg Colliery
- Bellfield Colliery
- Miners in the Coalburn Collieries
- Park Street, Bellfield - from Prefabs to Modern Bungalows
- Filming of The Big Man, 1990 in Coalburn
Shops
- Co-operative Society Branches in Coalburn and neighbouring villages, South Lanarkshire
- Joe McGill and his Shop at Coalburn Brig
- Former Colliery Shop in Coalburn Road
- Shops in Coalburn Road near the Miners Welfare Building
- Shops in the former Co-operative Building
- Shops in the Coalburn Brig area
- Shops in Bellfield Road
- Ices and Fish and Chips in Coalburn
- Mobile Fish and Chip Vans in Coalburn
Schools
- Bellfield and Coalburn Schools
- School Memories of Andy Brownlie
- Items of interest regarding Coalburn School before, during and after the Second World War. by Peter McLeish, 2017. 5.0MB
Renewable Energy
- Windfarms near Coalburn Part 1 (Hagshaw Hill, Nutberry and Galawhistle)
- Windfarms near Coalburn Part 2 (Douglas West, Cumberhead West and Hagshaw Hill Repowering)
- The CHP Plant at Poniel - Combined Heat and Power
- Development Framework for the Hagshaw Energy Cluster
Kirkmuirhill and Blackwood
Lesmahagow
- Some historic photos of Lesmahagow
- Billy Hamilton and his Cafe/Shop in Lesmahagow
- Lesmahagow Bridges and Trunk Roads
- Lesmahagow Schools - the rebuilding of the schools from 2004
- Lesmahagow Jubilee Hall - its history, the campaign to try to save it and its demolition.
- Lesmahagow Fountain and Fountain Hall - the history of the drinking water fountain at the junction of New Trows Road and Abbeygreen and the Fountain Hall opposite it in Abbeygreen. It includes an account of the refurbishment of Abbeygreen, part of which was the installation of a new fountain.